Fancourt: Montagu

The Montagu Course was the first of three courses to open at the Fancourt Resort in 1992 comprising 27 holes with an additional nine holes added in 1997. The course has more recently undergone renovations in 2005 by David McLay Kidd and in 2018 by Gary Player to improve playability and emphasize its traditional parkland look and feel. Each renovation focused its attention on resurfacing greens as well as making sightlines more intimidating while removing dense native bushes on the fairways to make landing areas larger and more forgiving. The course features fast greens and undulating fairways flanked by native trees and dense vegetation. The more challenging front nine features three par-4s over 400 yards as well as the challenging par-5 ninth with a small green seemingly shrunk by the lake behind. The second nine is highlighted by the challenging 200-yard par-3 17th over a lake to a green guarded by bunkers. While The Links course garners much of the attention at Fancourt Resort, the Montagu easily lives up to its Top-10 ranking in the country.